Improvement in hobby-horses



tiuited tatce @wat @wie Letters Patent No. 104,170, dated .Timo 14, 1870.

IMPRVEMENT `In HoBBY-Honsns.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making peut of the same I, JOHN Larme, .of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Hobby-Horses for children, of which ihe following is a specification.

Nature and Olzjccts of -thc Invention. My improvements relate to those hobby-horses' for the amusement -and exercise of children, in which the .Descr'il-Jtion of the Accompanying Drawings. A is the platform, attached, by its fulcrum, a', to

main-supporting frame B', and suspended from the upper transverse bar, b', of the latter by means of the adjustable spiral spring C.

I) the horse, and E the spring seat in rear of the frame B.

Gene/ral Description.

i The frame 4B consists of two vertically placed castiron skeleton side frames, secured together by transverse bars l1 b, the fulcrum bar a of the platform A turning on journals in the said side pieces of the frame B. rlhe platform A, with the'horse D att-ached, is suspended from the bar b by the spiral spring C, the upper end of which latter is adj ustably attached to b by means of a screw-bar, o', jam-nut2l, and thumb and linger-nut, 3, so that any required degree of elevation and range of the forward end of the platform and, of consequence, the horse may be given with facilit-y.

The rear seat Eis fixed on the upper end of a springy stem, e', the lower end of which is inserted in a suitable hole or socket in the rear part ofthe platform A, so as to afford an elevated springy seat in rear of the frame and horse. v v

It will be understood without further description that, if a child be mounted on the horse and another in the seat, by adjusting the tension of the spring C to suit, asee-saw motion can be easily kept up between them, and that the construction and application of the spiral spring C will be less costly, and, at the same time, afford a longer and easier motion than the scroll-springs heretofore used.

Claim.v

The arrangement of the spiral spring C, platform A, and seat E, in relation to the frame B, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

JOHN LIMING.

Witnesses:

JNO. H. SCOTT, Jr., BENJ. MoRlsoN. 

